Unforgotten Archives was founded by Ben Swift in 2024. A graduate of Simmons University’s MLIS program with a Masters Degree in Archives Management, he is an archivist with over 15 years of experience with collections large and small. He got his start cataloging archives and books at a number of small institutions, including the Amherst Historical Society (where he cataloged the collection of Emily Dickinson's first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd), A.P.E. Gallery (where he cataloged Phyllis Kornfield's Cell Block Visions Collection, and the collection of the mail-art collective H.A.M.M.E.R), and the Yiddish Book Center. He was formerly the Head of Rare Books at the company Boo-Hooray, where he catalogued numerous books and collections, launched their online book business, and edited the catalog for their auction with Sotheby’s: Post-war, Counterculture, and Pop. He was the co-founder and co-editor of the small press Pleasure Editions (2012-2017), a publishing company that focused on new and rediscovered art and poetry. He studied literature and art history at Hampshire College and Art Criticism at School of Visual Arts, where he received a Masters Degree in the Art Writing Program in 2020.